skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two friends and I started http://repeaterstore.com straight out of college. Within a year it was profitable, and within 3 it was doing $3 million in revenue (and about a 15% profit margin). It's pretty much stabilized since then, and we hired a manager to monitor the operation. Most stock is shipped through drop shoppers, we just have 2 customer support people to handle phone calls and emails. Forthe last 2 years we've been working on new, more interesting startups - but having a stable source of income has been incredibly valuable in letting us bootstrap until we could raise funds from VCs. Niche eCommerce can be awesome.
This is what saddens me a little. As a person who started listening to PSY (amongst other Korean artists) over the past two years all he will be known for in the western world is Gangnam Style.
http://www.naturalthinker.net/trl/texts/Science/Jaynes,%20E....
Obama and Romney responses to NYTechMeetup compared.
I'd have to say my two eCommerce businesses. They took a ton of time to setup and market initially, but now they generate a full-time income as I have a team in place to manage operations.

I love to work on them and often do, but I'll frequently take weeks off at a time to travel and everything continues to run smoothly. The entire business is based on the drop shipping model, so I don't have to stock any inventory and can run the business from anywhere. Plus, the initial capital outlay was just $1,500 so I didn't have to take on any risk.

For anyone interested, I blog about running my two businesses and eCommerce in general at:

http://www.ecommercefuel.com
You can also file a complaint with the CCTS: http://www.ccts-cprst.ca/

They've helped me in the past with stupid things Rogers and Bell have done, but they don't have any legitimate power. I'm usually for deregulation, but this market is too highly monopolized. What I'd give for a FCC
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Totally agreed! Just left a comment above about how eCommerce is my favorite source of passive income.
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Canonical adds all the fun stuff and Debian adds all the boring stuff. But, you can't have the fun stuff without the boring stuff, and it's easy to argue that Ubuntu would not exist without Debian. Letting the user kick a few bucks back to the Debian Foundation wouldn't be the most horrible thing ever.

(I do use Ubnutu, BTW, but regret the decision on a regular basis. I especially like waiting 15 seconds to get a shell prompt because it's checking for package updates to display while I'm logging in. The 15 seconds after each typo'd command is also enjoyable. "Did you mean to install the package sl?" No. No I did not. Ever. </rant>)
It's still true. Though IR is doing a good job of reducing delays.
Can you disable auto-loading of images in Chrome? If yes, how easy is that to do? It's very easy in midori.

I will always choose simplicity over complexity if I'm concerned about security. Chrome is very complex.
You can skin -- change fonts, backgrounds, and foregrounds -- Chrome's dev tools: http://darcyclarke.me/design/skin-your-chrome-inspector/

You can even inspect an inspector to dig right into selectors.
I am in the Bay Area, email me, it's in my profile.
Diversity for diversity's sake is an empty gesture. Not only that, but diversity for diversities sake is demeaning. I love startups. One of the reason is that when I was in school I despised the political correctness of large, bureaucratic institutions. We exist in a meritocracy, and when success in a startup is already so difficult, anything less than choosing a team based on merit is making an already difficult task damn near impossible.
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The status says "an issue with CDN provisioning, however content delivery is not impacted" but all of my cdn images are not flowing through to my production website. I can browse the blob storage, just not the cdn. In case you needed a reason to not trust the azure CDN.

It's just so convenient I couldn't help but try...
After working with django, going back to simple PHP based templates is pretty sucky. Twig for PHP is pretty similar to django templates: http://twig.sensiolabs.org/
Yep, Italian-made and super cool. They are certainly expensive but very well made. Not only durable but counter-balanced such that a just a light touch is needed to pull down the bed.

http://www.resourcefurniture.com/space-savers/queen-space-sa...
I once lived in an apartment building that had a special deal going with Rogers. Although the building had no soliciting in general, Rogers was the exception. I learned from the management that they kept a list of tenants who were not customers and their goal was to convert every single one.

Monthly flyers under my apartment door were annoying. Visits from actual Rogers reps to my door were also annoying. But once they even resorted to having a crude printout shoved under my door with "NOTICE FROM MANAGEMENT" on it. Sure looked like a notice from the landlord, but turned out to be another Rogers ad.

They also once tried to call me. I asked to be taken off their list and the guy actually had the audacity to argue with me about why I would want that and why I don't want their service. The only way out was for me to resort to repeating "Take me off your list" over and over until he finally did.

It's really an awful company.
"We're addressing these near-term challenges by targeted cost reductions and focusing our new game pipeline to reflect our strategic priorities."

Methinks someone has been raiding that bingo variant for phrases.
See it live here: http://ebay.com/feed

(Had to read through the whole thing to find out where it is!)
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Facebook is down, and it's not just me
You're right. And maybe average number of hours per month is more appropriate. Or lets, say average number of hours per week. Usually the top end goes to 100 when I'm working on some new feature and am completely obsessed with it. However, following that there is definitely burn-out which causes me to go down to the 0-20 per week range.

Also, considering that I've been working on this since high school, I used to have a lot more time for it back then ;)

In a regular month I probably average around 20 hours per week. However, during a particularly overzealous month I may go to 35 or higher. I think at 20 it still falls under passive income.

Just to give you an idea of how my commitment varies. A year ago I had a full time job and I would sometimes work only 5-10 hours per week on it. Also, I completely neglected it in my first year of college (yet it paid for my college) and by my 3rd year there were enough problems that I had to again spend considerable time bringing it up to spec :)

I'd love to call it a hobby - because that's how I feel about it - but when 24 hours of downtime can cause more than a few hundred dollars of losses - it becomes tough not to take things a bit more seriously =/
Yuck, yuck, yuck.

A _much_ better option: http://www.resourcefurniture.com/space-savers/queen-space-sa...

Who should be doing more searching?
there is a large triangle button at top of the page with text "Toggle all summaries" next to it.
Bien-Être et Sérénité
Would copying a VHS tape to a digital format similarly be fair use? Why or why not?
Sorry for such a naive question, but is it possible to do A/B testing on the Apple App Store? I don't know what their turnaround time is for changes, but do you just change the price, wait a while, change back, wait a while, etc., or do you do something else?
This is like feeling sorry for people who work overtime for telemarketers. Oh poor them. Zynga was a cheesy business to begin with, and absolutely every employee there knew it.
I don't see these as anywhere near 'must haves'. For reading fiction, random access and colour support are not necessary. Most people I have spoken to find the battery life mindblowing. And I am not sure why your Kindles keep breaking, but I don't even use a case and mine has survived a lot of rough treatment.

You can loan books, but it depends on the publisher. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...

Even if the Kindle was more flawed, I'd continue to use it. There is no way I'm going back to worrying about which physical books to take with me, or on holiday, and having to carry them everywhere. I haven't purchased a paper book since buying the Kindle.
Koh-Lanta, la télé-réalité chouchou des Français, revient le 2 novembre
Les fans de Koh-Lanta peuvent se réjouir. TF1 annonce que la 12e saison de la télé-réalité animée par Denis Brogniart revient le 2 novembre 2012. L’émission fait peau neuve avec l’île des bannis !
I find that quote interesting. Your gamer friend might not have given you the context of the game, but it's interesting:

You pretty much know there is no cake. GLaDOS, the malevolent and controlling AI telling you there is cake, lies to you consistently. You catch on quickly that she's lying.

The warning "The cake is a lie" is scrawled in blood inside a hidden antechamber, inside one of the levels.

Somehow I feel like there are parallels here that you stumbled on more or less accidentally. Or maybe I'm being far too literary.
Full disclosure: I work for the aforementioned. Much of this stuff doesn't appear to make any sense from the outside, and sometimes puzzles those on the inside. I'm not company PR nor am I trying to be. Actually, to be honest as I'm disgusted by the company for how they are handling things. Morale is in a slump and pressure from above to cut costs and increase profit is insane.

But to get back on topic: The policy this blogger has encountered deals with how a dealer must authenticate a customer before making any financially-impacting decisions or contractual obligations. As far as the lawyers are concerned this is to protect the company. If we mail out a new iPhone 5 and charge an account $100, then when it turns out you are not who you said that's simply too bad for us. We just lost an expensive phone. Arguably, it appears to make no sense in some scenarios like the one mentioned (where one could reasonably assume they are speaking to the correct person) but the reality is the person calling you has no bloody clue who you are. The account likely came up on their screen and the system dialed your number. You could be the account holder or a kid holding the phone.

The poor sucker calling you is likely sitting in a mile-long row of phones tethered to the desk by cords forced to listen to people complain all day long. Really, that's no different than just about every call centre. You asked for a manager... now guess what? You (if you're lucky) just got transferred to another call centre. Go figure.

Sales and service isn't all about money but that's all these big blind companies are able to see. You can complain about it all day long and it doesn't change a thing. Call up and cancel your service, perhaps then one of the dolts overseeing operations will see the light.
I'm not really that impressed to be honest. The feed feature is a rather trivial idea, eBay will never be Facebook so implementing a feed might be good for some, but I'll most likely forget it's there (unless it's the new default logged in view). The better checkout however is something that I am pretty happy about, I will reserve final judgement when this redesign goes live.

Still not digging that new logo though...
It is possible that ebay is worried about the new crop of companies that are slowly nipping away at its core business model. Specifically people are discovering things to buy through other means and not necessarily searching for them directly on ebay.

That said I like the design a lot. The old design was showing some age. I see they kept most of the layout so it should be semi familiar to all the power users.
Alt+e, s, images, <click> Content Settings, do not show and exception handlers are highlighted.
Well if he's spending that much time on it, then yeah I'd agree, not passive. In the interest of naming arbitrary cutoff points I'd call anything more than 10 hours a week not passive.
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I'm another data point, and here's my responses:

> Robust - You don't mind breaking kindles?

I won't break a Kindle. The Kindle is sufficiently robust, and then some.

> Ability to loan to others - You never lend books? To anyone?

No. The only exception was my textbooks in college.

> Extended Read Time - How on earth couldn't you want extended battery life.

How long does it take to read a book? My Kindle lasts easily 4 weeks, reading about 5-8 hours a week, and in that time I can usually get through a 1,000 page novel. I've never taken a trip where I would be without electricity for more than 4 weeks, and even if I were, I doubt I would want to lug around more than one 1,000 page novel.

> Random Access - You never want to flick through a book?

No. Again, textbooks are the only exception, but that's not really a common use case for e-readers.

> Support for color - Really? You don't want any color in your books? Not even Text books?

Maybe for textbooks, although all the textbooks I've actually enjoyed enough to keep after class have been monochrome.

> With the possible exception of "Loan to others" - I can't understand why every single one of those isn't a "Must have" in order for the kindle

And, conversely, I can't understand why many people would care at all about these issues.
The most disappointing part of it for me? It's still heavily tied to PayPal.
If true, that'd say more about the thread than about anything else.
Or pay someone else to manage the property for you. They are not cheap but with the super low interest rates now (along with house purchase and rental markets) you can likely find some workable solutions this way. It isn't passive, but with a property manager it is much closer to passive.
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I'm going to be cold-hearted here for a moment.

We put far too much emphasis on prolonging life and not enough on quality of life. I have no clue who this lady was or what her background was, but $7k goes a long ways in China. Imagine if she could have instead guaranteed a solid education for every one of her children.

We spend a ton of money on end of life care that could do much more good spent elsewhere. Which would you rather have- $50k in end of life care or a free college education?

Kidney failure and a transplant, chances that the transplant doesn't work, complications following it, issues remaining for the rest of her life, etc. It's not all roses and medicine isn't as magic as it is in the movies.
Using AND and OR to return non-boolean values is one of the best, most useful parts of Common Lisp.
Is this due to the acquisition of ITA Software? I though Google was not in favor of Common Lisp.
You are pushing a bit too far there. It's one (bad) thing to say, "my theory is X (a miracle), even though Occam's Razor suggests Y (evolution), and both X and Y explain Z (dino bones), and we agree Z is true".

It is another thing to say, "my theory X (simulation) implies Z (a symmetry-violation), which has no other proposed explanation, and we have observed Z".

That said, I am more than willing to bet that the lattice will not be discovered.
This is going off on a tangent, but in comparison to other free software projects Mozilla is unusually strict about trademarks.

LibreOffice, for instance, has a policy that says
You can use their trademark if you are 'substantially unmodified', which means "built from the source code provided by TDF, possibly with minor modifications including but not limited to: the enabling or disabling of certain features by default, translations into other languages, changes required for compatibility with a particular operating system distribution, the inclusion of bug-fix patches, or the bundling of additional fonts, templates, artwork and extensions)."

Mike Connor from Mozilla has said that to use the Mozilla trademarks, you have to get prior approval from them for your build configuration and every patch you introduce.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=74;bug=3546...
This looks pretty cool. For what it's worth - I did give Google's Pagespeed service a shot a month or so ago and ran from it like the wind. It's just that web pages seem to be extremely complex beasts and it's really hard to find a one-size-fits-all solution.

I want my scripts cached a certain way for a certain thing and my deployment systems do take care of all that. Given that situation - the only thing pagespeed was adding for me was serving pages through google's CDN. However, the upstream connection from google to my server was pretty poor and for most cases it ended up ADDING latency! :(

So for now, I'll give automated 'page-speed' tools a pass and simply try and do each step that Y!Slow suggests manually.
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Yes, because Webkit never had security issues, and those alternate browsers have faster patching processes than Mozilla or Google do.

I don't think so.
where does this traffic come from?
I don't see this connection. Facebook is a lot bigger than the games platform. They appeared and then died off as a fad within my friend group, and aren't really used anymore.
Yea, I am very happy with how simple and easy my Nook is. Maybe Kindle's UI has gotten better with the touch screens, but it used to be horrid.
The price updates within a day, and you get sales reports daily with a delay of a few hours, and a mix of old and new price sales on the first day. So it's possible, but the feedback loop of the charts means that this kind of measurement is hard to analyze. If you do a test that fares poorly, the next test will probably be affected by that.
I dislike PayPal as much as the next guy, but what did you expect? ebay owns PayPal, probably everyone who uses ebay by now uses PayPal too, and loosening their grip would only make them less competitive.
So long as you have no knowledge of Buddhism the analogy does seem good. You speak of 'learning from the whole thing' but clearly the GP post is complaining about that very same thing... that the author focused in on an idea and presented it without appearing to have learned of the wider context. Or if the author does know, he's not communicated that.

Someone with knowledge is likely to ask which school of Buddhism in attempt to understand the analogy. If Theravada, then does DROdio mean that his discipline is the equivalent of precepts that he his following?

In that sense self-discipline is just another word for practise and routine. An attempt to make an action second-nature.

The article also specifically says: "Think of the self discipline of a Buddhist monk practicing monastic silence for years next time you're tempted to stray from prioritizing successfully."

Buddhists rarely practise silence in the form of a vow of silence in the Western religious sense, this Buddhist saying expresses it better:

Do not speak, unless it improves on silence.

Observing that a Buddhist monk appears to have discipline and then repeating such behaviour without understanding why would be to cargo cult.

To go back to your last line again, 'picking out one little piece of a post to whine about instead of learning from the whole thing', I think it's precisely because most people on HN do want to learn about everything that we do pick things apart. It's hacker nature to disassemble something to try and understand it, and perhaps some people do that too vigorously in the context of conversation.

Of course, some pick apart for sport, and I wouldn't agree with the GP that I was 'disgusted' by the author. I also hesitated upon those parts of the article, and now I've spent longer writing this post than was probably worth it... the vast majority of thoughts I never hit reply for, they seldom improve on silence. But perhaps in this case that single saying does.
Not really. Air is Flex packaged up to run as a standalone desktop app.
Maybe he's a Zsh user?

$ cd /
$ rm -rf *
zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in / [yn]?
Chemspills?
Of course not - we have competition already as a matter of fact. I'd be interested to know what would be different about it other than the marketing.
There is a reason why pilot checklists has become an airline industry standard. In a lot of situations, checklists simply do work better than anything else. "Do not under any circumstances" is hyperbole that should not be written. Without that hyperbole, OP can at least get away with saying, "airline work and Jeff Atwood's work is an apples and oranges comparison".

http://www.atchistory.org/History/checklst.htm
The page on which Patrick is A/B testing the presence of video is https://training.kalzumeus.com/lifecycle-emails, and not https://training.kalzumeus.com/ (note they have 2 different videos)

You can see the A/B testing in action by visiting these two links, which explicitly include/exclude the video, on the first link:

https://training.kalzumeus.com/lifecycle-emails?video=no

https://training.kalzumeus.com/lifecycle-emails?video=yes

Regardless, A/B testing is not a panacea[0]. Is it a good technique? Sure, in many situations. But just like with anything else, you have to take it with a grain of salt.

0: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/07/groundhog-day-or-th...
That's an amazing article but the corollaries to the current opposition to US health care reform seems a little too neat. Wikipedia is sparse on the subject, has anyone seen any other sources of info on Campaigns, Inc?
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Indeed. With a historical performance of 9% a year returns and a 100% employer match, you'd have to be pretty pessimistic about the future of the economy to not have a 401k. (Though one could argue that taxes will be higher in the future, and so paying taxes now might be better than paying taxes when you take the distribution.)

You don't even have to manage the split yourself, there are plenty of mutual funds that target certain retirement year changes and rebalance the portfolio as appropriate (basically: less risky investments as your retirement date nears). There are fees for this, of course, but for my fund they amount to $90 per 10 years per $10,000 invested. I think that's worth it if you don't want to actively manage your retirement portfolio.
>>How many hectic projects do you (or GP) have going at once? If you have too many to remember everything you have to do for each one, either you're too busy or they're not that urgent.

That's like saying if you can't put every bit of information on the RAM of a computer you are doing it wrong.

The brain has programmable memory and RAM. You are talking about using that RAM like a hard disk.
Easiest way to figure that out is to check what's available in your area on Airbnb and see what equivalent places are going for.